Anna Scheps

Born in Moscow, Scheps is the daughter of the pianist Ilya Scheps, her younger sister is the pianist Olga Scheps.

Scheps was taught at the Moscow Conservatory at the age of six. After the family moved to Germany in 1992, she initially attended a grammar school in Wuppertal. From 1995 to 1997, she studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London with Ruth Nye.[https://www.freundeskreis-kulturspeicher.de/01_infos/Flyer_ANNA%20.pdf Anna Scheps] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824080841/https://www.freundeskreis-kulturspeicher.de/01_infos/Flyer_ANNA%20.pdf |date=2021-08-24 }}, freundeskreis-kulturspeicher.de In London, she performed at the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall. She has been a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Eduard Arnhold and Max Taut Foundation of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, among others.{{cite web|url=http://www.konzertfreunde.de/GetSimpleCMS-3.3.7/data/uploads/programm-anna-scheps.pdf |title=Anna Scheps |publisher=Konzertfreunde Straubing e. V. |access-date=24 August 2021}}

From 2000 to 2006, Scheps studied at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Bernd Glemser, graduating with distinction. From 2010 to 2013, she studied again in Glemser's master classes. She also took master classes with Lazar Berman, Dmitri Bashkirov and Bella Davidovich, among others.{{cite web|url=https://www.adticket.de/Klavierabend-Anna-Scheps.html |title=Piano recital Anna Scheps -works by Chopin, Liszt, Medtner, De Falla, Rachmaninoff Tickets {{!}} Tickets at ADticket.de |access-date=24 August 2021}}

Scheps performed in Germany as well as in France, Canada, the US and others. Yehudi Menuhin chose her as soloist for the CD Young Virtuosi, produced on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Because of her three children, she took a break for several years until 2011. In 2014, she released her first own CD on Genuin classics. In 2015, she became involved in teaching music to school children.[https://www.op-online.de/region/dreieich/pianistin-anna-scheps-begeistert-schulkinder-haus-lebenslangen-lernens-dreieich-5256142.html Anna Scheps: Pianist inspires schoolchildren at the House of Lifelong Learning], {{Ill|op-online.de|de}}, 17 July 2015 Since 2017, she has been touring with the programme "Classic meets Movie", in which she plays classical works as well as film music that she has had arranged for solo piano.[https://www.ostseebad-ahrenshoop.de/schnell-suchen-und-finden/eventlist/details/event/show/swimming-piano-mit-anna-scheps-am-fluegel/ Naturklänge 2017 - "Swimming Piano" mit Anna Scheps am Flügel] Scheps has also appeared on various occasions at charity events.{{cite web|author=Abendzeitung Germany |url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.benefiz-in-bogenhausen-konzert-fuer-malteser-demenzprojekt.dd4c2b87-7944-4366-a408-bd004a3de02a.html |title=Benefiz in Bogenhausen: Konzert für Malteser-Demenzprojekt. Abendzeitung München |date=3 October 2013 |access-date=24 August 2021|language=de}}{{cite web|url=https://www.kwm-klinikum.de/aktuelles/20/09/2012/ausverkauftes-haus-benefiz-klavierabend-fur-die-kinderklinik/ |title=Ausverkauftes Haus: Benefiz-Klavierabend für die Kinderklinik |access-date=24 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bad-kreuznach.de/politik-und-verwaltung/nachrichtenarchiv/jahresarchiv-2014/dezember-2014/anna-scheps-spielte-fuer-die-kreuznacher-quellnymphe/ |title=Anna Scheps spielte für die Kreuznacher Quellnymphe |access-date=24 August 2021|language=de}}

• 1999: Kulturpreis der Stadt Unna

• 2014: Dances, Poems, Fairy Tailes. With works by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Sergej Rachmaninow, Manuel de Falla, Frédéric Chopin and Nikolai Medtner. Anna Scheps (piano). Genuin classics.

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